Our Favorite Things As of Late

Having a 6 year old keeps my ears and eyes in the game.
Teaching 4th grade keeps my daily in the game.
Running 5 days a week keeps my heart in the game.
Seeing life throughout West Oakland keeps my soul in the game.
Fish tacos in the marina keep my euphoria in the game.
Street art sensibilities challenge my paradigm of the game.
Love is not a game but a practice...

("...that's right, we talkin about 'practice' ")

Dang. Go Mario Chiodo...(really, my kid's gonna freak when he sees that I was actually next to the original Star Wars frozen Han Solo form that Boba Fett ship he wants!) Tacolicious, Phineas and Ferb, Rooky Ricardo's record shop, Endless Canvas....and About the World!

Now, it's time to throw on that Brownie McGhee and Sonny Terry record Dick gave me a deal on over at Rooky Ricardo's record shop
[my waaaaay, totally, new favorite...add it to your vinyl to-do-list!]

yours truly,

b freaking phlecksi gosh durnit parmella.
(time to get my spring break ON!!!!)

donuts anyone? (dilla's of course...)

Celebrate. Visions of Dr. King from Oakland to Brooklyn

and why not cop the Year of the Blacksmith Community Mixtape to get your groove on?!

See Graphic Attack! Before It's Over and Out!!

I couldn't cop photo's until the Bay to Breakers this morning.
Had to wade through all the drunken debauchery.
But Seriously.

See the show.
It's curated by some really heavy hitter art gals: Brooklyn gallery driver Melissa Mc Craig Welles and NYC's super ridiculously uber-skilled Andrea Von Bujdoss.
(that's her piece to the right of Cope's..) mad murderous.

1AM is a killer gallery.
And not to mention their staff is MAD NICE!
I attached a flick from someone piecing outside from 2009, on the raccoon piece....

-bwlp

Some Ma'claim Crew Stuff

Realistic graffiti crew out of Germany.
They are mad.

Case, one 4th of the crew has a tremendously dope website.
Peep it at Cold Crushes to the right...

Cope2 Interview in Juxtapoz, May 2010

Okie doke, like I told you all back on Cinco De Mayo, Cope2 is dope.
And, it looks like over the past few days he's been up to was' good in SF.
(the timing is a bit haunting...) Imagine my surprise to see this tag splash as I was on my way with Son & family to the De Young for an event Friday night 5/14.....the interview with dude just popped up from Juxtapoz on Thursday!
And I had to see all the Plasma stuff and Mike Giant collab stuff in the Tenderloin/Market area...
I just wanted to jump out the car right there and snap photo after photo of all the illness!!!!
But sometime it's gotta be about the fam.'
No hope for Saturday photo shooting either with Peter Pan on tap....
hmmmmm.
It's ok. I'll get graf shots before the weekend is over...and play more guitar.
Some live performance is coming up in the next few weeks- an acoustic version of an Arboreal remix.
Hip hop is alive and well.

So bust the Cope & Fairey collab flick: the Bronx from the Juxtapoz May 2010 online interview Pt.2

It could be set to be like a MAD summer yo.

Girl Graf Jam from 09'

Ears to the Streets

So our latest video features some art work from the notorious 'Stick Alley' in San Francisco's Mission district. The SF Chronicle ran a piece on muralist, Dan Rauch's project to put up honorable graf pieces to thwart taggers from defacing often vandalized walls about the town. He teamed up with our local fave Mark Bode (pronounced boh-dee)and urban icon Mike Giant to force field the Episcopal Church of St. John.
Peep the flicks. We also feature some of this alley from last week's photo shoot for our 'arsenal' video now posted up at our podcast site.

There's a link to the article to the right under: Rauch, Bode, and Giant

Bode West Oakland Mural January 2010

World Class Graf in San Jose...come thru!

we'll be sure and get down to San Jo to represent

East Coast West Coast Graf Tribute

Stan is the man key speakin' on a tribute piece last month for NY writer IZ.
Damn, I love the Bay.

-b.p.p.

p.s. and all I was doing was putting together a syllabus for my teen summer reading group on a history of bay area graffiti..and i came across this. it certainly was cool catching some shots of the legends in this one. true that graf is still moving.

p.s.s. big ups to crayone for posting this to spread the knowledge. DO it too and check out his site in the Got To Be There Section for the upcoming Zulu BBQ in the Park in SF this August!

H.G.B.O.H.F.M.

first demo from the forthcoming...
Magnificent Peach Trees ep
from us.

Walking Through North Beach...

It's the first day of Summer.
The Bay Area got a G O R G E O U S one.
It sorta started with the lovely weather type of thing a couple of days ago actually... a fine time to pass these burners by on a leisurely stroll through North Beach in SF....hit up MoMA, E' Tutto Qua (for some downright all-the-way-live Italian food) with some homies from Chicago. SF represented well this day.

So Happy Father's Day all y'all.
For myself, I took my son out to a secret locale along the Cali coast...we maybe saw 4 people at this beach that is a MISSION to get to: tide pools, litter-free sand, surprises (startled a doe) and a windy little ride through Nicasio and Mount Tamalpias, saw a group of fisherfolk snag a 3 foot shark out of Tomales Bay....
Ahhhhh...heaven.
Yup. Happy Fathers Day.
Now...about that vocal that needs hittin' up...
I'm audi.

-b.p.p.

P.S. and a Happy (belated) Juneteenth folks!

And now...

so glad summertime is just around the bend....
latest jams, Saint Germain and Next Uplands at
www.myspace.com/hiphopmakenice

look forward to what's cookin' in the Canadian edition.
it's gonna be on b l a s t.
we just been a lil' busy.

'bout to wreck a whole lotta shop.

"..what he go, natural notions
what she got exists.."

here's a few flicks from around our way....

cue it up for a wee dance.

Refresh.

SF is getting it's gallery on with a few new ones opening up around the SOMA area.
Graf is still rockin' from ICP (ice cold posse..and skew don't stop muh'f%4uh!)

Limited Edition Tee's Up NOW.

Fresh for the Spring from Birds Who Like Pomegranate.
Crisp white tees featuring Bay Area Graf.
This Month, April 2009, limited edition LORDS crew burner from Berkeley CA.
Color prints, double clear coat finishing.
Available in Med. White Tee Only
Custom Made to order in all other sizes
hand wash, for FRESHNESS!
$20

get yours at
bwlp.etsy.com

rock something from around our way...
CELEBRATING AND REVELING IN THE BAY AREA BEAT CULTURE!

Happy Easter...

Nesle Loves You!
BWLP Graf Feature of the week.
Y'all keep hoppin'.

-bpd

Doin' Much

For Cesar Chavez' took a day around the bay to see who's repping in aerosol...

vogue is up for 09, tdk stands strong at the tracks, giant and fateez killing on the legit in upper Haight SF...

and this, right here from the town, OAKLAND.

Mike Dream Reception Remembered from 2008

and this is fresh from TSN crew just outside the Dream Yard at































'doin it.

And....

To All Toy Crews:
name- Gripa
residency- Mexico
crew- Love
note to selves...SHE'LL BURN YOU!!

ill.
more flavor for you at graffgirlz.com

so far so...

we're working on a best of graf that came across our shutters this year.
Bode stuff is in there...
just so you know.

the latest mag is in the works- promises to be catastrophically ill.
while hip hop production is on some regular isht,
we 'bout to come irregular like a mug.
watch.
It's 2009; time to get your game together.
-b.p.d.